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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away."
2) Purple Heart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
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Series
Irish angel series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Maddie Grande, who was raised to be a thief on the streets of New Orleans, now lives in the bayou. She longs to change her life, but her twin "brothers" have forced her to become involved in a kidnapping. When she falls for the Pinkerton detective assigned to the kidnapping case, her world is turned upside-down.
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English
Description
"After a childhood as a street thief, Gabriella Goodhue thought she'd put her past behind her until a fellow resident at her boardinghouse is unjustly accused of theft. In the middle of breaking into a safe that holds the proof to prove her friend's innocence, Gabriella is interrupted by Nicholas Quinn, the man she once considered her best friend--until he abandoned her. After being taken under the wing of a professor who introduced him into society...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
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Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda...
7) Sinister
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Series
Shaye Archer novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Street kids are disappearing, but how do you report that to the police when, from their standpoint, the missing people didn't exist, to begin with? Hustle is certain that something bad has happened to his friend Jinx, and the only person he can turn to for help is private investigator Shaye Archer. Because Hustle helped the young PI while she was investigating her first case, Shaye has already formed an opinion as to his character and believes he's...
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Series
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English
Description
"Lester Ferris, sergeant of the British Army, is a good man in need of a rest. He's spent a lot of his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. He has no family, he's nearly forty, burned out and about to be retired. The island of Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to serve out his time: a backwater island in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste, and facing imminent destruction by an international...
9) Chipper
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Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a street-wise gang member in 1890s New York City, until a con man introduces him to a wealthy woman who is seeking her long-lost nephew and Chipper must decide where his loyalties lie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joy Delamere is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally-abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a "street family" that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had.
12) Lila
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Series
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English
Description
"Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Time travelers Maisie and Felix meet a young Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone). When the twins get separated from Alexander, they join the thousands of orphans in the streets of Victorian London"--
14) The walled city
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
"As Jin Ling tries to save her sister, Mei Yee, from the Brotherhood of the Red Dragon in Hak Nam Walled City, one boy, Dai, can reunite them and save their lives--but only if he's willing to risk his own"--Provided by publisher.
15) Born behind bars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
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Series
Language
English
Description
While on a camping trip, Detective Peter Decker and his two young charges come across the charred remains of two teenage girls. Embroiled in a disturbing case, Decker's only unifying thread in a network of violence and corruption is the deaths of the two apparently very different young girls.
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Series
Petra Connor novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy - Billy...
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Series
Halo Hattie's boarding house volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A woman recovering from a tragic loss takes on some some volunteer work, and undertakes the nurturing of three rambunctious street children.
20) Street boys
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, in Naples, Italy, a handful of abandoned children left behind in the bombed-out city joins forces with Corporal Steve Connors, an American soldier cut off from his unit, to take on the German Army advancing on the city.
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